02 July 2015
Peculiar Pluto: Spots captured by New Horizons puzzle NASA
...sent back images of a series of evenly spaced spots on Pluto’s surface. NASA calls the consistency in the size and spacing ...the spots “remarkable.” New Horizons is still on approach to Pluto, and more information about the spots may be revealed in ...
07 July 2015
New Horizons sees reddish brown Pluto: problems of perception in space
...than expected. As the New Horizons probe has been closing in on Pluto, we have discovered that the planet is a red – or ...we know to be true on Earth simply don’t apply in space (Pluto’s hue is a great example). Other mistakes we initially made due ...
21 September 2015
New pictures of ‘surprisingly Earth-like’ Pluto by New Horizons
... had spent sending only data and telemetry. The historic Pluto flyby, as performed by New Horizons, had gathered an... As Alan Stern, principal investigator at New Horizons, put it: “Pluto is surprisingly Earth-like in this regard, and no one predicted ...
16 July 2015
Geologically active Pluto and Charon: Young mountains between Tombaugh Regio and Cthulhu Regio, ‘Mordor’ at Charon’s North Pole
... know after beginning to analyze the data from New Horizons’ historic flyby of dwarf planet Pluto. One is particularly startling. Pluto appears to be geologically active. A detailed close-up shows an icy mountain range and resurfacing planes between...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... the rolling landscapes revealed by the Apollo landings in the 1960s. Even so, his influence cannot be overestimated. A painting of Pluto & Charon done in 1991, plus a 3D model of New Horizons by Dan Durda added in 2015. Note the atmospheric haze...
04 August 2015
Pluto, Charon, Lovecraft, Tolkien and other geek culture staples we should use on new worlds
...Consider the fact that now that we have highly detailed pictures of Pluto and Charon – all thanks to the historic Plut flyby undertaken ...have been proposed for a whole lot of the Pluto and Charon topography. They include references to everything from...
